Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.